Our cities are saturated with fast-food purveyors. ... With the concentration of fast food even worse in school neighborhoods, our schools, parents, and policymakers need to take a serious look at this issue.
Quotes about fast-food (16 Quotes)
Zoeller said the remarks were a reference to the Champions Dinner, in which the previous year's winner gets to select the menu. When I hosted the dinner I served fast-food hamburgers, ... It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.
In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.
Around every corner lurk greasy Fisherman's Platters that give children nightmares, Naugahyde minute steaks that put tofuburgers in a favorable light and all those ubiquitous fast-food indigestion huts.
This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry.
Long before he benched Ramsey and went back to Brunell on Monday, Gibbs handled the quarterback situation with about as much aplomb as a fast-food shift manager firing a fry cook on the spot.
His work experience at the time involved fast-food and convenience stores. He didn't have a college degree or U.S. citizenship. He had a burglary conviction. He had no real future.
I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced that the best was ahead of me. Reflecting on the time when he started in the fast-food business.
Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.
I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.
It's an issue everywhere. There has been a cutback in fast-food advertisements for children and schools are starting to remove soda from the machines and replace it with things like Gatorade.
It's almost seems as though there's a battle going on between the public and all the fast-food establishments, and, believe me, I think it's very tasty food.
In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.
We're really at the beginning of the movement. We need to establish statewide policies that support parents in teaching their children to make the right choices, rather than continuing to allow the financial interests of soda and fast-food companies to win out over the health of our children.
Many companies are reporting annual turnover percentages in the high teens to the low 20s. You might expect that in the fast-food business, but not for people making salaries north of 60,000,
Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.